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This is My Brain in Love wins the Schneider Family Book Award!

A wonderful thing happened yesterday! This is My Brain in Love was recognized by the American Library Association during the Youth Media Awards (basically the kidlit equivalent of the Oscars), winning the Schneider Family Book Award! Past winners of this award, which honors “the artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences,” include some of my very favorite…

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Happy Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Happy Mental Health Month!

Happy Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Happy Mental Health Month!

May is a really timely confluence of “awareness months” for This is My Brain in Love, being both Mental Health Month and Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Starting tomorrow, I’m collaborating with some amazing authors at the Asian Author Alliance on a series of events. First off – an Instagram Live on Thursday, May 7th with the incomparable Stacey Lee (award-winning author of The…

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Indie bookstores need your help! Take it from someone who lost her hometown indie TWICE.

Me, at Books Expo America 2015

There have been scores of essays written on why independent and brick-and-mortar booksellers matter. This quote from writer Rob Hart my seem harsh, but his point is valid.

[Online booksellers] will never host a reading where an author can shake hands with a reader. They’ll promote what sells, not what’s good. They’ll sell books with the same reverence and care that…

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This Is My Brain on Starred Reviews!

This Is My Brain on Starred Reviews!

Any author will tell you that that waiting for trade reviews is one of the worst part of the publishing business, akin to that nail-biting period when kids are waiting for college admission announcements.

I am so, so thrilled – and, let’s be honest, more than a little relieved – to share that Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal and Kirkus have weighed in with their opinions on This if My…

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Thanks Giving (#NCTE19 version)

Thanks Giving (#NCTE19 version)

It has always felt fitting to me that the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention is held on the week before Thanksgiving. There’s no conference out there that makes authors feel so unbelievably grateful for the educators that live and breathe the love of language and stories. For me, this year was filled with more overwhelming gratitude than most, because it’s the first…

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The @nmaahc - Nat. Museum of African American History - is the most brilliantly designed and impactful exhibit I have ever been to. It is a reflection, a reckoning and a celebration, all at the same time. So, so grateful to be able to go there with my WCFS family!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ChZfBgGjc/?igshid=1wayfnp3rj4r8

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Aaaaaah!!! Huge congrats to all the Young People's #NationalBookAward longlisted, including the wonderful, big-hearted @randyribay and @halseanderson!!!!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B2fyHnKAtdh/?igshid=9tupu4cfe4t7

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One more time, tagging @magpiewrites who so eloquently brings out a discussion of the layered discussion of racism that @davidoftheyoon so deftly creates https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ShQxPAtee/?igshid=hxmkwssfnbjv

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Could not be happier and more excited to celebrate the marvelous @davidoftheyoon's FRANKLY IN LOVE at Towne Book Center in Collegeville!!! I first met him and @nicolayoon four years ago at ALA midwinter, and don't think I've ever been more charmed by a couple. The #kidlit world is so lucky to have them. (at Towne Book Center and Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2SgES5AIli/?igshid=1sswak7j66nrb

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Belated happiest of book birthdays to @themackenzilee and LOKI!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_9Yx2A7l-/?igshid=1ab8fkwmehw9x

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Happiest of book birthdays to the incomparable @staceyleeauthor, whose THE DOWNSTAIRS GIRL is swimming in stars!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HXV1PA8Qq/?igshid=1fbtp2cudeky4

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Cake for lunch! Thank you to my office staff for enabling my poor diet control of my diabetes 😀 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ErcZ8AQ--/?igshid=9ieypacyf24s

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It should not have taken me 3 times reload this #HappyBirthday #GoogleDoodle without getting a picture of either Jefferey Epstein or our POTUS on it! Google, apparently, has a very odd idea of what I want for my b-day 🙄 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1EO0fDgCjc/?igshid=7pe51d8ha8dx

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Day #1 in #ocnj and can't think of a better #beachread than @sonesone2's #SymptomsOfAHeartbreak!! (at Ocean City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0v4YSpAJ6J/?igshid=f5zwnd8xzug2

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#ThisIsMyBrainInLove with my cover reveal. Huge thanks to the whole @LittleBrownYR team for this Omggggg cute animation. Book baby #2 coming in April 2020! Link for excerpt here: https://www.thenovl.com/blog/2019/7/30/cover-reveal-this-is-my-brain-in-love-by-iw-gregorio #yalit #coverreveal #mentalhealthawareness #instalove #instadepression #instaanxiety #instamentalhealth https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jG1aAgvz2/?igshid=1caet1bbyiyer

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Thrilled to see the Orange County Register (@ocregister) publish this piece in support of intersex individuals' rights to bodily autonomy. When I think back to my testimony for the California State Senate, it saddens me to remember the opposition of so many clinicians to the idea that intersex children should be able to make their own decision regarding irreversible surgery. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WN4JXA66O/?igshid=1wxalqadukqsm

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Front and center at B&N where he belongs. @lamargiles is crushing it this year - can't wait for the kiddos to read his middle grade debut!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B0E-BdIgZJH/?igshid=553lt875vm33